Hello, fellow movie fans.

I'm Lily Percy and I'll be your guide this week

as I talk with writer Samantha Powell

about the movie that changed her life, Bridget Jones' diary.

If you haven't seen the movie, don't worry,

we're going to give you all the details you need

in order to follow along.

And hopefully, you'll be quoting the movie in no time at all.

When I was young, I never needed anyone.

When I think about Bridget Jones' diary, I think about Renee Zellweger, sitting alone in her apartment on New Year's, listening to Celine Dion, Sad FM. I think about all the feelings

of loneliness and the idea that you're going to die alone, eaten by dogs. I suddenly realized

that unless something changed soon, I was going to live a life when my major relationship was with a bottle of wine and I'd finally die fat and alone and be

found three weeks later half eaten by wild dogs or I was about to turn into going

close and fatal attraction. All by myself.

Bridget Jones' diary is about a woman named Bridget Jones who is struggling in her early 30s

to find a man, to find out who she is in her own life, to find a career that really

satisfies her and challenges her and actually exhibits the gifts that she has.

And she's doing all of this while living in London and navigating the publishing world,

which is where she currently works, with the very dashing but very dirty Daniel Cleaver.

If walking past office was attempt to demonstrate presence of skirt, can only say that it has failed

parlously. Leave.

Shut up, please. I'm very busy and important. P.S. How dare you sexually harass me in this impertinent manner?

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